Hands Down BEST chocolate cake recipe

Hands Down Best Chocolate Cake

(found at: lifeloveandsugar.com)

                      2 c. flour  
                  2 c. sugar

                  ¾ c. Hershey’s Cocoa powder  
                  2 tsp baking soda

                  1 tsp salt   
                  2 large eggs

                  1 c. buttermilk                                  
                  1 c.  olive oil

                  1 ½ tsp vanilla
                 1 c. boiling water

1.     Preheat oven to 300

2.     Prepare buttermilk (I use 1 c. skim milk with 1 TB lemon juice let sit 5 minutes)

3.     Prepare 3 (8 inch) round cake pans by using circled parchment paper and grease sides of pan with cooking spray  or grease and flour the pans. It also makes 36 cupcakes.

4.     Add all dry ingredients to bowl and mix

5.     Add boiling water, milk, eggs, oil to dry ingredients mixing well. Add vanilla

6.     For Cake cook 30-33 minutes. For cupcakes cook 15-20 minutes

Ruth's Chocolate Buttercream Cream Cheese Frosting

1 c. (2 sticks) butter

1  cube cream cheese

2 1/2 tsp vanilla

1/3 c. milk (or heavy cream)

5-6 cups powdered sugar

1/3 c. cocoa (optional) if you want chocolate frosting

Soften butter, cream with cream cheese

Add 3 cups powdered sugar and a little bit of the milk until it all comes together

Add the cocoa and a little more milk

Then add more powdered sugar and  milk until you have the consistency you like for your frosting.

You may or may not use all the milk or all of the powdered sugar. This is just an idea (I ALWAYS eyeball my frosting. The times I have followed them exactly it turns graining or dry or wet or whatever. So I do my own thing. LOL